According to Cynerio’s 2022 State of Healthcare IoT Device Security Report, 53% of internet-connected medical devices analyzed had a known vulnerability, while one-third of bedside devices had a critical risk. (Cynerio observed over 10 million medical devices at over 300 hospitals and medical facilities across the world). The findings show [...]
Validation in healthcare and validation in life sciences industries was always significant, ensuring the reliability, safety, and regulatory compliance of mission-critical applications. As technology and computerized systems have rapidly evolved, the need for a more flexible and risk-based approach to validation has become increasingly apparent. Validation is the most used [...]
The world might be fighting against a pandemic caused by a novel virus, but that is not the only health-related issue there is. The healthcare institutions still have their patients with chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart conditions. They still need to treat those with depleting organs and life-threatening [...]
We are in the middle of a global humanitarian crisis. Global issues like the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates a strong and collaborative fight worldwide. As the pandemic poses one of the greatest challenges to the humankind, while weakening the healthcare systems, it is becoming increasingly important to address and resolve the issue quickly [...]
Intending to address issues related to the safety of Medical devices, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to propose new frameworks to protect consumers and enhance medical device cybersecurity. It has released the Medical Device Safety Action Plan: Protecting Patients, Promoting Public Health, which outlines how [...]
Speed and quality are the core essentials for serving the healthcare sector effectively. The industry’s challenges and undying demands have led to significant inventions and enhancements. Digitization is one of the breakthroughs that healthcare has witnessed. It implies connecting people and devices and deriving meaningful inferences from the data [...]
Risk-free businesses don’t exist – not even in the wildest of fantasies. If you have a business to run, it will have risks involved, and to survive – and thrive – you will need to face and overcome these risks. Next generation product and services industry will heavily focus [...]
As far as medical devices go, there is more to testing than just plain verification and validation. The technology you put in is important, but the outcomes are more critical than technology implementations. They can be put into real time operational use only after stringent regulatory guidelines laid out [...]
